For some Dallas-area scientists, the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, was more than just a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic ...

As global temperatures rise, scientists debate the pros and cons of solar geoengineering, a strategy to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight into space.

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

The team's research was published on Monday (March 17) in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. Meteorites are rocks from ... these ancient fragments are among the oldest materials in our solar ...

Our solar system, in contrast ... “Breaking a classification scheme is sometimes what pushes science forward,” says Seligman. Much effort has been put into classifying the nearly 6,000 ...

Sub-Neptune planets that are smaller than Neptune in size are the most common type of planet known to exist in the Milky Way, but they are absent from the solar system. They have atmospheres that ...

March 2025 solar eclipse in India: The first solar eclipse of 2025 is all set to stun the skies later this month, bringing joy to skygazers. This partial solar eclipse or Surya Grahan is among the ...

As the world's foremost space science observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope continues to be a key player not only in the hunt and observations of distant exoplanets, but also the continued ...

In this new study, the team in California noted that such models are still being described in ways that are not up to the task of fully describing a system's capabilities ... carrying out ...

The HR 8799 system, a mere 30 million years old, is a cosmic youngster compared to our 4.6 billion-year-old solar system. Its planets, still radiating heat from their turbulent formation ...

Her research changed the course of the Covid-19 pandemic — and she won a Nobel Prize — but only after being delayed by a decade because our system was ... the way we fund science is flawed.